Jacques Lezra Department of Comparative Literature New York University 19 University Place, 3rd floor
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[email protected] Phone: (212) 998-8780 Fax: (212) 995-4377 December 2014 Academic Employment: 1/2008- Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, New York University 9/2008-14 Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, New York University 9/2008- Co-director, Program in Poetics and Theory and International Center for Critical Theory (Beijing-Tokyo-New York) (NYU) 1991-present Literature Faculty, Bread Loaf School of English Summer Program, Middlebury, Vermont; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Juneau, Alaska 2011-12 Director of Academic Planning, NYU-Madrid 1/2010-3/2010 Visiting Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California-- Irvine 9/2007-1/2008 Visiting Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, New York University 6/2001-12/2007 Professor of English and Spanish Literature, University of Wisconsin at Madison 6/2003-7/2007 Director of Graduate Studies in English, University of Wisconsin at Madison 8/2002-7/2003 Resident Director, Wisconsin-Indiana-Purdue Study Abroad Program, Universidad Complutense de Madrid 9/99-1/2000 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University 5/96-5/2001 Associate Professor of English and Spanish, University of Wisconsin at Madison 8/93-5/96 Assistant Professor of English, University of Wisconsin at Madison 1991 Summer Visiting faculty, NEH Summer Program on "Boccaccio and Medieval/ Renaissance Narrative" at Yale University 1991-2 Director of Undergraduate Studies, The Literature and Comparative Literature Majors, Yale University 1/89-6/1993 Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, Yale University Education and Degrees: 5/90 Ph.D.